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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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Lincoln in the Bardo is a fitting novel to read during November, the month of the dead. Set in a Washington, DC, cemetery in February 1862, the novel combines real historical events and an imagined spiritual realm. This is a story about death and loss, moving on (or not), and redemption. As in the film The Sixth Sense, the dead of Oak Hill Cemetery don’t know they’re dead (or if they do, they are not saying so). These souls refer to their coffins as “sick […]

As our eyes met I saw that she had spoken in earnest.

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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I have been avoiding/suspect of this novel since it came out. I tried to read it and didn’t like it so I stopped. Then, I got the audiobook and also didn’t want to keep going. I realize now that the time I was trying to read it I was injured and in pain, so maybe that was a factor. Had it not won the Booker Prize and had I not found myself thinking I should finish all the Booker novels, well I might now be […]

Guys, I tried SO HARD

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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I tried SO HARD to read this book. It’s is on everyone’s recommended list, and currently hold as 3.78 rating on Goodreads, which is generally a good sign. I tried reading the hard copy a few months ago when I first became aware of it, and totally failed to get into it. So I tried again to listen to the audio version — I figured I was on a road trip, and would have nothing distracting me. And the audio version has basically the best list […]

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

The Magic Barrel and Other Stories; Elric of Melibone; The Humbling; Joe Gould's Teeth; The Maltese Falcon; How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia; Happy Endings; DA; Fox 8; Snowpiercer; Embroideries; Tinkers by Bernard Malamud; Michael Moorcock; Philip Roth; Jill Lepore; Dashiell Hammett; Mohsin Hamid; Various Authors - Diana Schultz, Mike Mignola, Harvey Pekar et al; Connie Willis; Marjane Satrapi; George Saunders; Jacques Lob and Jean Marc Rochette; Paul Harding

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The Magic Barrel – 5/5 Stars This story collection came out in 1959 and contains the well known title story, but also has several other very good stories. It won the National Book Award as well. As I have previously stated in reviews, the age of the writer (here in a kind of debut effort) lends itself to an already mature and thoughtful work (this was also true for many of Raymond Chandler’s stories as well as the story collection A Lucky Man by Jamel […]

Episode 1-42: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors

Worst. Person. Ever., Season of the Witch, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Dark Defiles, Desolation Island by Douglas Coupland, Peter Bebergal, George Saunders, Richard K. Morgan, Patrick O'Brian

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Episode 1-42: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors Wherein I review: 154. Worst. Person. Ever by Douglas Coupland 155. Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal 156. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 157. The Dark Defiles (A Land Fit for Heroes #3) by Richard K. Morgan 158. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin #5) by Patrick O’Brian TRIPLE CANNONBALL ACHIEVED As my regularity falls apart like an Acapulco tourist’s bowel movements, I feverishly exploded across that […]



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